Category: Family

Walking Dead? (Saving The Youth from Dangers of Financial Illiteracy)

It’s been a great month of August for the OFW UsapangPiso Forum, Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy, and the BurnGutierrez.Com financial literacy missionaries.

Earlier this month, I sent fellow advocate Edmund Lao (Businessmirror columnist) to attend a cocktail night for bloggers for the Sykes Glorietta branch launching. He was actually able to “preach” the gospel of financial literacy to the young event promoters during that night.

This morning, we were able to run another webinar/webcast featuring Jess Emerson Uy, a financial consultant based in Singapore, and discussed about how OFW’s can invest in other countries aside from the Philippines and their respective countries of work. The Q&A webinar sounded really like ANC’s On The Money! 😀 Continue reading Walking Dead? (Saving The Youth from Dangers of Financial Illiteracy)

Do Men Really Earn More Than Women? [infographic]

Do men really earn more than the women? A study showed men do earn more than women on average. However, there is not much difference when they work the same job and when they both have the same work experience, strength or abilities.

Here’s an infographic from Payscale to answer certain issues about this growing consciousness on gender pay gaps.

See the methodology used for this infographic here. Continue reading Do Men Really Earn More Than Women? [infographic]

Are Bad Spending Habits Hereditary?

“Is bad spending habit hereditary?”

I received this question from one of our followers so I did a self-assessment of my previous and current spending habits.

I knew my parents were very frugal as far as I could remember but I still asked myself, “did I inherit any bad spending habit from my parents?” Continue reading Are Bad Spending Habits Hereditary?